Monday, June 8, 2009

You see, none of us read xkcd for the clever wordplay and witty social commentary alone. We read it for the art. Look at that art! The female is carefully placed off screen, so we must wonder: What does she look like? But we know the answer: She looks like a stick figure with shoulder-length hair, just like every other xkcd woman. And so the genius of Randall is complete: He has drawn a woman, but only in our minds. He is brilliant like that.

"Ugh, stupid uterus" has to go on our list of Stupidest XKCD Quotes, along with "do me without a condom." Randall just doesn't know how humans talk, or at least human females. He has to quickly get across the point that this woman is on her period, and he can't think of any better ways, and so he goes with the "just come out and say it, who cares about whether it makes sense" method.

He also makes sure that we understand he has made a funny in panel 4, via a similar method of "Have the other character get angry, so you know a bad pun just went down." Randall just because one character says it's a bad pun does not absolve you of the fact that your comic just got its laugh (if the reader laughed) from a bad pun. You can't just replace good humor with bad humor and apologize, expecting that to be enough. It's not.

Also, and again this is one of those things where I'm not a woman, but are women on their period actually incapable of motion as implied by "If I could get up..." ? I have known a small number of women and I imagine they had periods at some point but I don't think any were actually rendered immobile. I don't think.

Guys what else should go on the "dumbest sentences ever uttered in xkcd" list? we can make this a thing.

update: Ah crap, I forgot I meant to say something nice about all these. Um...if I get in the right frame of mind where I like terrible puns, I can vaguely enjoy the feeling where you read the phrase "uterus-hertz" and do that sort of mental double-take and realize its second meaning. Of course that's true for all puns, but still, I promised I'd try.

The "if I could get up, I'd smack you" thing seems like someone would actually say. Which is fine for a drama, or even a sitcom, but it's horrible comedy. distracts from the punchline, etc. Move the "what?" from the bottom of the third panel to the top of the fourth, and move down the pun, and it would be significantly better.

Hell, take out the comment, add a fifth panel where he's on the ground in the fetal position, saying "ok, no more reproductive jokes.". Something. Anything. But stop having people say shit they don't need to.

As an engineer and a menstruating member of society, there is so much I find wrong with this comic. To name one: The punchline is sort of funny except for the fact that it is anticipated by the dialogue in the first frame. He should have used a different word there instead of "uterus" (not to mention the idea that not a single woman in the history of the world has uttered the phrase, "Ugh. Stupid uterus." with the sense of resigned dismay implied by the punctuation.)

Just another xkcd with traces of a joke marred by poor execution and horribly contrived dialogue. I've probably said that about 90% of the last xkcds over the last few months. I don't think Randall is capable of writing believable dialogue. He has never expressed it, at least, unless I'm forgetting a notable comic.

The joke is very, very lame, unless you like awful puns.

Also, for as "girl power" as Randall normally is, he has no problem sacrificing it for lame jokes.

the punchline is uterus-hertz. end the joke at the punchline. no need for useless, untrue, sexist remarks afterwards. unless the joke is actually 'lol @ women they are immobilized every 28 days for a week at a time'

xkcd is the worst for doing this. PvP used to do it all the time and CAD also does this a lot.

when writing a comic, see if the comic is still funny and makes sense without the very last line. if it is, then you have a better comic.

I love bad puns, but this was way too labored. Also, why the dicks is the art so lazy? You can't draw a girl laying down? I mean, there is NO ART. You could not draw an extra stick man and a couch. YOU ARE A LAZY, LAZY BASTARD RANDALL.

Your art is at the bottom of the barrel. It cannot get lazier. Next week, all the talking characters are off panel.

You know what? Fuck Carl's newfound commitment to positivity or whatever the dick he's been on about. There's nothing good about this strip, and this is coming from a guy who goes out of his way to torment people who hate puns with the worst fucking puns he can find.

A lot of people have mentioned particular gripes - all of them correct - but when you gather them all together, you realize that 594 is just a big, festering heap of shit on top of a lot more shit. That's been vomited and pissed on. By lepers. With herpes. Poorly-written dialog? Check. Lazy art? Check. Too much exposition? Check. Shitty punchline delivery? Check. Bad pun? Check (though mileage may vary over whether this is a pro or a con).

And maybe, just maybe, I could forgive all that. Maybe all the shitty strips over the past months could have dulled me to Randall's complete and utter lack of understanding for even the most basic elements of humor, to the point where a simple bad pun, regardless of how fucking terrible the presentation is, would only elicit a half-hearted "Meh," from a jaded cynic such as myself.

However, when that bad pun is so telegraphed, so contrived, and so unoriginal (as one commenter pointed out, it is a "mature" retelling of the age-old elementary school "Wanna a Hurtz donut?" gag) that it crams it's own throat full of dicks even after I've forgiven all those flaws, I am left smoldering with a rage that burns so hot not even alcohol can douse the flames (N.B. - I realize that alcohol has the potential to just feed the fires more, but I was using poetic license to surreptitiously blame Randall for my pseudo-alcoholism, so you can eat a back of dicks for all I care).

Jesus Christ, Randall, is this really the best you can do? Fuck yourself and die.

(Amanda, you are still the only person I don't hate. Rob and Carl are kind of okay, too, I guess.)

The really bothersome thing here - aside from the fact that it's sort of a mediocre pun - is that he does the same apologetic deal that he always does when he has a bad pun in the comic. For instance, in Organic Fuel or in the alt-text of Boyfriend, the other characters remark, "Ah, that is a terrible pun and therefore we can no longer know each other." The purpose of this, I assume, is that people (like myself) who genuinely like puns can laugh at the pun itself, and everyone else can laugh at how other people hate the pun. But it's lazy, and repetitive, and it detracts from the intended punchline.

(Actually, I thought it was handled well in Boyfriend, as it made an appropriate alt-text meta-comment without mucking up the flow of the actual joke. In Organic Fuel, the punchline really was how bad the pun was, I think, so it was slightly appropriate there. But here, it doesn't work in the slightest.)

And yet! various women have stated that they have said something like this. Believe or not, women are capable of recognizing pain, even when it originates from their uterus. (Yes, it sounds somewhat silly. Some women are capable of saying silly things, even when in pain. This is to their credit.)

For what it's worth, I dated a girl who had awful menstrual cramps for a while, but I forget if she ever said those exact words.

You're going to have to explain how "if I could get up I'd smack you" is sexist. My two guesses are the implication that menstrual cramps prevent women from getting up and smacking people, and the idea that women smacking men is sexist through some contortion of the "men should never hit a woman" rule (which is sexist only because the last two words are unnecessarily specific).

The problem with both of those theories, is that they are stupid. But it's as close as I can get.

1. I enjoy awful puns, and having not gone through any kind of English-speaking school I haven't heard the Hertz/hurts joke a million times, so it didn't seem stale to me. It's not laugh out loud funny, but I was slightly amused.

2. The art sucks. That's a minor point, but he could've put a -bit- more effort in it.

3. STOP ADDING EXTRA LINES AFTER THE PUNCHLINE, DAMMIT!

4. "Ugh, stupid uterus. If you had done me without a condom, I wouldn't be having this problem."

Seriously, do yourselves a favor and stop reading the comic if you're going to nitpick about every thing you don't like about it. Christ, people. Lately, XKCD has really sucked balls, but I actually enjoyed this one.

The sexism is not found so much in the threat of hitting, but the implication that "women on their period are completely incapable of doing anything other than sitting off-screen and complaining, because they've got girly bits lol."

You morons are not the authors of XKCDSucks.blogspot.com. I came here to read the witty, scathing criticisms of XKCD put forth by the author. "This is a placeholder for comic 594. I have been convinced that I should do this," hardly counts. Therefore, you lose.

I think you've missed the point on the "people don't talk this way!" thing. The point is actually that Randall has such quirky and exceptional relationships, he and his hypothetical girlfriend can say completely lewd, inappropriate, or awkward things and get away with it--because they're that quirky! The point (to Randall) is that nerdy social ineptitude defeats artificial social boundaries, and that it's better that way.

Guys, I don't get the new comic at all. At first I thought she was doing something to the guy's head. I had to look twice at panels two and three to realise what went on there, and then it didn't become any clearer. Arc welding a cherry stem is a fetish? Is there something non-android humans do with cherry stems that this is the hilarious android equivalent of? -Can- you arc weld a cherry stem? Are they made of metal? Can you only arc weld metal? I'm so confused, it's making me angry. Also the alt text wasn't even a joke. I think.

I think it's a play on the old weird... myth? I guess? that if you can tie a cherry stem in a knot with your tongue you are good at making out with people. This just makes it even more confusing though.

Which aspect(s) in the new comic you find sexist or otherwise problematic? I was curious about how the forumites interpret the alleged sexism, here's one opinion about objectification:

"Objectification needs the portrayal of a realistic woman in a objectified role.What we have here is a robot (not human) stick figure (also not actually human) and finally a comic (satire).We also have said female-robot-stick assuming a perversion of sexuality objectification to the point were men are cringing at the idea of using her. This in fact does the complete opposite of subjugating and objectifying her. She is sexualised, but she is furthermore empowered through her sexualisation."

I'm not totally convinced though. The man presents his girlfriend (as he calls her) like a toy, with whom his friend refuses to play. How's that empowering, "Sorry, I won't have sex with you, I only fuck girls(/bots) with normal sexual preferences"?Also no one seemed to pay attention to the portrayal of the man in the comic, which implies that the man finds a sex bot a partner who is emotionally satisfying companion for him (since he calls her a girlfriend), which makes him either an idiot or someone who cares about only sex.

(sorry for doubleposting) Or maybe I'm just paying too much attention on the word "girlfriend", actually the noun phrase is "android girlfriend", which is probably just an euphemism for "sex toy". But his friend asks straight out "oh, a sex bot", so why would the main guy have to use such an euphemism.

And if he had said "check out my new android fuck toy", it would have been just another "do me without a condom" moment resulting in comments "Yes Randall, we know you're an adult and you have sex, but sex in context of stick figures offends us".

Also if the genders were reversed, you(plural) could just go on complaining "yes Randall we know you like to emphasize the fact that girls can do just the same as boys", whereas now it works as an example of reinforcing the existing gender stereotypes.

I honestly don't get 595. Normally I get what the joke is supposed to be, or I understand the reference, but this one... I don't even understand it. I have no idea what he's trying to go for. Whatsoever. It completely baffles me.

Okay, um, even if I had heard of the cherry stem thing, I don't think arc welding would actually be related, unless this is just another "oh ho ho i am blurring the line between human and machine--but sexually now!!!!!!"

I know enough women who have said some variation of "ugh my uterus" enough different times that I have a hard time believing it's that rare a thing to say. You'd say "ugh my stomach" if you had a stomach ache. Well maybe not "ugh," perhaps you'd say "ow my stomach" or "my stomach hurts." Why should the line change if a girl is in pain around a guy she's comfortable with? It's not like we don't know they have one.

Maybe because Randall has really been pushing his "Everybody should be comfortable about sex and talk about sex and their organs around me freely and probably have sex with me."

I mean, here's a comic where the first question the guy asks when he hears that he's dealing with a lifelike gynoid is whether or not it's a sex bot.

His first reaction to seeing something out of Bladerunner or Terminator is "Will it let me stick my dick up ins?"

Soon, every comic will just be about Randall finding a new way to destroy both prudishness and every other societal norm regarding courtesy and sex, and it will just be non-stop fucking, interrupted only by the monthly ravaging vileness of a woman's uterus.

Bad puns are enjoyable when the delivery is flawless. It's all about the damn delivery, which randal fucked up completely.

The whole idea behind the comic seems last ditch.

Oh, and as for the art critique, LETS START A MOTION ON THE XKCD FORUMS TO GET RANDAL TO ACTUALLY DRAW SOME THINGS FROM TIME TO TIME, LIKE HE DID IN THOSE FIRST FEW SKETCHES AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE COMIC.

The stick figures are obviously here to stay, so let's get him making half decent backgrounds at least.

"CURSES, MY UTERUS!""INDEED, YOUR PERIOD IS EVERY 28 DAYS, NOW ISN'T IT?""WHY YES, YOU ARE IN FACT, CORRECT!""PERIOD IS MERELY EQUAL TO T, WHICH IS IN TRUTH: 1/ƒ""HOW NOW, WHAT ARE YOU RUMINATING?""MY FINE CALCULATIONS SHOW YOUR UTERUS HERTZ""I AM IN DESPAIR AS TO YOUR TREACHERY, AND QUITE COMPELLED WITH A DESIRE TO WRECK HARM UPON YOUR PERSON!""AND NOW I AM COMPELLED TO LAUGH MOST VILLAINOUSLY! MWAHAHAHA!"

Seriously, push for better art on randal's part, either in the comics, or posted in the forums.

I've specifically heard a woman say "Ugh. Stupid Uterus." before in real life. In fact she said this almost everytime she was on her period. A lot of good it does coming from an anonymous comment on the internet, but still.

Let's be clear here, since this has come up a few times in this comment thread.

Just because someone has uttered a particular phrase in the history of the world does not make it good or believable dialogue. Someone has probably said "do me without a condom" before too, but that doesn't make it any less horrible.

As for 595, I had to go over the second cluster of panels several times several times just to figure out what was going on. It seemed to me like she punched in his head and was eating his brains at first.

It's a big problem when the reader can't even tell what is going on thanks to the crappy art.

Also, there's no humor. There's a vague implication at the end I guess, but it's definitely not funny.

I don't what kind of drink Randall was trying to draw. It's a martini glass, but garnished with a cherry. It's either a sweet martini (which makes the guy a pussy/huge douche), or a StevieKumptini (which makes him Liberace). Either way, neither drink is very common, and I doubt Randall is enough of an alcoholic/drink connoisseur to be aware of the existence of these drinks, and probably just has a cherry there for the purpose of the joke, and a martini glass to imply alcohol, and therefore a party, which makes the whole premise even more contrived than the setup for 594's terrible pun.

You really think that a drink in wrong kind of glass makes a setup more contrived than non-believable dialogue? That's same kind of wankery than with the Voynich comic, "boo hoo you don't lose points for that in Dungeons and Dragons, therefore the comic sucks".

As the blog's resident alcoholic, yes. Yes I do. Putting the wrong drink in the wrong glass is blasphemy, as any bartender worth his salt will tell you.

Martini glasses are for martinis (of all varieties), and about 99% of those cocktails do not use cherries. Not to mention that, when using media artifacts (in this case, the glass), an author has to take into account what the average reader associates with said artifact. The vast majority of people associate OLIVES with martini glasses, because most martinis (and esp. the ones often seen in popular culture) are garnished with olives.

When I did the first read-through of the comic, I had no idea what the panel with the cherry stem being pulled out was, because when the android chick reached for the glass, I was expecting her to grab an olive on a toothpick - the obvious assumption to make when you see a small round object on a short stick protruding from a martini glass. Then I read the line about cherry stems and was like "WTF just happened". Then I re-read the comic and discovered it was a cherry. And then I raged, in my heart-of-hearts, at Randall's lack of knowledge of the most basic of cocktails, and hated him for it.

The dialog was also extremely unnatural, but that's such a common complaint that I expect people to take it as a given for every xkcd strip. Perhaps the normal lack of verisimilitude was unnaturally compounded by Randy's martini faux pas and that's why I found it so annoying, but I stand by my statement that the vast majority of the readership will expect there to be olives in martini glasses.

I'm not particularly against that line (the uterus one). I mean, I do personally think it's a bit contrived and unbelievable, but more so I just don't like the defense that because people have said something before its necessarily good or believable dialogue.

And usually I'm willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt in situations like this, but considering Randall has proved time and again lately that he is bad at writing human dialogue, I'm a bit more skeptical. That condom line just pushed it over the edge.

@Adam. I don't see how it's that much worse. It suggests a frustration with one's malfunctioning organs. But I have to change the pattern. It's properly:{interjection}, {negative adjective} {object that does not work as desired}!

Speaking of which, I'll bet y'all could work up some really stinging XKCD mad-libs if you were so inclined.

I could almost accept 595, but the first panel is just terrible. I mean, this person has an android which is so advanced it can even be assigned a gender, yet the first thing the other person asks is if it's a sex bot. I mean, not only is it ridiculous as to even acknowledge the rest of the comic we have to assume androids are exceedingly common as its existance, technology and gender aren't questioned, but also we have to assume it's not at all offensive to ask if the android that someone called "girlfriend" (a title which should have emotional bearings attached to it) is a sex toy.

The joke itself isn't well delivered, but it's not awful. The premise is pathetic however.

xkcd is weird in that sometimes the setting needs to be explicitly stated(mal from firefly) while 595 waits until the alt text to infer that this comic takes place into the far future.

A future where sexbots have been invented, perfected, and evolved to a point where they have developed their own fetishes including arc-welding.

While explicitly stating the premise is a bad comic(mal from firefly, ugh stupid uterus), leaving it completely up to the reader doesn't work well either, as evidenced by these comments). My guess is Randall had the idea of sexbots evolving their own fetishes including arc-welding and created the comic backwards. He started at the alt-text and ended up with one panel left(the very first panel) and had to introduce the android girlfriend and the fact that she is a sexbot in two sentences.

Randall thought it was obvious that the setting is the far future, but he forgot that it was only obvious to him because he wrote the 'joke'.

Maybe he should explicitly state the premise when it's something obscure or far-out, like the Voynich or a utopian version of Blade Runner, and he should assume his readers aren't retards when it's a reference his entire fanbase ought to get, especially considering his three thousand other comics on the subject, like Firefly and velociraptors.

Alternately, he could actually SHOW us what the setting is, rather than trying to cram the premise in via infodump, but that would probably require artistic talent and actual writing.

Poore: a Manhattan comes in a cocktail glass and is frequently garnished with a cherry. I also thought maybe it was an olive at first, but really, it isn't that implausible--I order Manhattans all the time. What it was is poorly drawn. I couldn't tell it was a cherry for the longest time. I thought she was breaking the stem off the glass or something, except for some reason the glass is shaped in a weird way, maybe that's the base and Randy can't draw?

I would seriously fuck someone up if they stole my damn cherry, though. I was saving that.

A woman tying a cherry stem with her tongue suggests talent at fellatio, and it can be considered an aphrodesiac. The sexbot, when asked if it's a sexbot, wants to prove she's better than average, or more talented. In the robot mind, what's stronger than a knot? A weld. So, that's what it does. Presumably with an acetylene torch in her head, which is perfectly acceptable if you consider that robots are chock-full of toys, whether they're sexbots or not. To the human, however, a stronger bond =/= sexier. The robot didn't understand why it was sexy, because it's a robot.

It makes sense.

Maybe I'm just retarded, but there are at least four connections in there that I absolutely DID NOT get from the comic itself.

I have only ever drunk (drunken? drank?) vodka and a few sips of other things (beer, wine, champagne) and uh dunno any other drinks so I also assumed that the glass represented a martini. My TV-knowledge was like wait why does that olive have a stem holy shit she is pulling off his.. arm? what the hell is going on

P.S. Carl I will get around to emailing you, I apparently decided to nap yesterday and ended up not waking up until today. But I has a (short) list!

Re: "Period". Maybe it's a naïve reading again, but I assumed that the "punchline" of the comic is NOT the pun itself, but the completely slimebag attitude of the guy to come up with such a massive mathematical contrivance to deliver that abhorrent pun. And the pun is awful enough, but xkcd has had fun with awful puns several times before (though I wish we'd have more of the clever linguistic jokes like the "escaping handcuffs" and the "pointers").And epic fail for Carl's utter lack of knowledge of menstrual cramps. And then he criticises Randall for not knowing females... :(

You know, it isn't implied in the comic in any way, but every time I read that "If I could get up, I'd smack you." line, I read it as "If I could get up, I'd smack you, even though you know that's not true because actually I find you so lovable and secretly I giggle at your witty puns." It SICKENS me.

Now there is a good comic. It validates all the previous 'red spider' comics which stretch way back to the start, it has a visual punchline that made me laugh out loud for once, and the alt-text was worth another, entirely separate, laugh.

Plus - 427. It's still a relatively new one. Ignore me if you wish, I had to tell the world somehow.

I was about to suggest that in the low 400s is when xkcd began its decline, but looking back at the previous few before that one, they pretty much suck too. But I'd still wager they're better than this high 500 crap.

If only we as a community could somehow score each comic and plot the scores, we could narrow down its decline on a chart. It'd be only fitting for xkcd.

I did like 552. It was simple, it was straightforward, and it was clever. It didn't try to be anything more than a clever way to poke fun at correlation-doesn't-imply-causation, and I didn't mind that.

@Amanda that's a little goofy right? If she can't get up, because he's asking her about her period while she pees, well, it doesn't make any sense. Why would she be yelling about her uterus while she pees?

http://yukyukinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/period.htmlI re-imagined his work. Maybe you'll see what I mean.

@anonymousElectric Retard was an exception. Though it was a gross to be offensive. It wasn't a guy talking to his girlfriend about her period while she's tending to herself (is there a non-gross way to describe this)?

Randall really doesn't understand why he shouldn't talk about this stuff, like he's the fucking kid from Mercury Rising or something. That's what makes it gross.

@Fred:I apologize, but this conflict you mention between threatened violence and real intentions -- it is the only reason I am still alive today. Hell, I invented the Viking long-pun (extensive, carefully-crafted, and yet ultimately barbaric).

i still don't get it? i am going to assume you are in the "ew feminine hygiene" school of thought, or else why would she be yelling about her uterus if she's... pooping? This is confusing me more than it should.

I have been feeling defensive about this comic because I have the distinct feeling that I've uttered that initial phrase before, and it never struck me as weird until I read that other people were...and THAT struck me as weird. (The other reason being that I found it quite obvious that the female character was off-page because she was on the can- it wouldn't make sense for Randall to suddenly start drawing in architecture only to not include her, being behind a bathroom door and all.)

Back to weird syntax structures. Now, I'm a human woman, English as a first language, and your esteemed Carl can no doubt inform you that I possess at least a moderate level of intelligence as we attend the same university and surely a lack of writing ability would have doomed me here long ago. Granted, I do have my verbal quirks, like us all.

So, I went to gmail, typed in "uterus" to the search box, and these are the phrases I have used in the past few years with that word in them.

"-hissed whisper- my uterus is trying to kill me, help.""yeah, one's uterus tearing out its own lining once a month is real pleasant."" -scowls- tell me about college, get my mind off my stupid, self-destructing uterus."

So, I guess my vote's in with the "that's a reasonable thing to say" crowd.

Nevertheless, I found the math joke unnecessary, solely because I didn't get it. Such is the life of being an art history major.

also: format, A. natural biological processes are not disgusting, unless you're trying to shame people about them. B. these phrases are to my best friend and boyfriend, so we're not exactly talking about saying it aloud in class or something. Granted, were you to discuss these things in a public forum I daresay it wouldn't raise too much of a fuss, outside of people wondering what that had to do with the conversation.

Just want to pop in several months late and say that I've known several women who regularly have periods that cause them so much pain, they are rendered immobile. The level of pain experienced varies from person to person. Sadly, the fact that this comic is plausible doesn't make it suck any less.

sooooooo what's the point of continuously admitting whether you have or have not made that statement? Well I get the reason WHY but do we really need to keep emphasizing that? We get it, some women say things like that (although most of the girls I've dated or been friends with have been more modest about it, or they have never had cramps so I can't vouch for hearing this statement or similar) but more on to the point.

Ahem... I sincerely hope that the guy who made the quip about the "period hertz" says things like that on a daily basis and she likes him for that, because if I or my friends (who are all as nerdy/quirky if not more so than Randall displays in his comics) pulled a stunt like that, I'd be in the dog house (not literally, I'm not married) for a good week or so, and have a nice red mark on my face, or a bloody nose, so I'm of the opinion that while "stupid uterus" isn't as contrived or make-believe as Carl said but I'm still thinking that the pun was totally uncalled for.

I should say that I do indeed have friends who cramp so badly they feel, at least, incapable of moving or where they would like to do nothing more but curl up in the fetal position. Granted, they could be exaggerating for all I knew, since mine are never that bad.

As for saying it outright, "Ugh, my uterus"? Personally I took it in stride as being just part of the bluntness that IS characteristic of xkcd characters. "We made a baby!"

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